[Junior Guru]

I second what Marc said. I called Doug regarding same thing prior to upgrading from an 03 Newell to a 2013. Very helpful.

My 2003 had a Detroit S60 my 2013 has a cummins isx. I was happy with the S60 and had no problems with it, either mechanically or performance. IMHO, the behind the wheel performance between the two has not been hugely significant to me. They both have treated me well. The acceleration of the cummins is a little better but as far as going up a 8% grade for five miles, they're both slow! (I do love the sound of a DD S60!)

Our 2003 had 3 slides and our 2013 has 4 slides. What's better obviously depends on how one uses the coach. Our current coach is tight but functional with all slides pulled in for our family of four but if we had a bus load of people going to a football game, it'd be really tight until we landed and pulled slides out. Our 3 slide newell had more room when the slides were in.

We are able to move around bed with slides in. I personally recommend two slides in bedroom vs only one. We've had numerous occasions where we could only pull one slide out due to being blocked by tree, other car, rv etc. having 2 slides allows us to pull either side out in that situation.

I think the maint on a 2-3 slide newell or prevost of the same years will be essentially the same. Newells service team and accessibility (getting somebody to help you when you need it) is good.